Rockpool: part of a series of films shot in Scotland. Spending time at the seaside made me understand how people came to personify the sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxHX1ENae0Q
Looking beneath the surface: films of Scottish water. Watching water meander over pebbles, the sea breathing, the ruffle on the surface over calm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egWiBQCakfw
Noises Off: sound work for Portmanteau Project: Campus with James A Smith. It is a sound archive of Park Campus before it was closed and moved to the Waterside location. It includes the aviary, the leather works, the students and staff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s58LLwyZ9CM
Through a Glass Darkly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkpWNiUFXU0 Storm in a Teacup: Part 1 seeing what's in front of you as well as what's not. Storm in a Teacup: Part 2 a kaleidoscope in a glass. Storm in a Teacup: Part 3 like Part 2 but doubled. Even: the reflected world as you rush by. Bonnet: the reflected world as you rush by and it rushes by you. Miniscus: when your world collapses in. Process: the distortions of the reflections remind me of process paintings I have seen which led to a fascination of reflections in the sides of vehicles. Seeing Clearly: is a metaphor for how we all see the world differently.
If Only: 4 films: Sing the Blues, If Only, Missing Mother and Escape: Sing the Blues was filmed at a bus stop my mother and I used frequently a few years before she died. If Only is about wanting to step into an alternate reality, the one you would have been in if only ... Missing Mother was filmed at the same bus stop as Sing the Blues. The woman on the bus was about my age and the age my mother was when I stood there with her. Escape is about the misery of commuting and wishing you were elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTfccsNMQdI
Pastoral Suite: site-specific sound installation in the John Webb room at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Based on the sounds of the farm machinery used to make the Hall prosperous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDUJPaSaroQ